Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witted Vag pecked at his typewriter as the Prime Minister lay dying in the next room. This was for him. "Independently Chosen Vocations." That was the word. Here they all were, put together in a special book. He placed the book gently on the table and went to his closet to select a striped tie. Then he remembered the other mail. There were three envelopes, lying close together in a careful pile. The first had a window cut into it; Vag snickered and tossed it back on the table. The next had a handwritten address. He opened it quickly...
...prize. It looked rather like a flat but tasteful Victorian sampler, translated into the smeary medium of oils. California's Rico Lebrun came in second with Centurion's Horse, a chalky, Picassoid nag, understandably hanging its head in a canvas as dark and narrow as a hall closet...
...last winter, seven-year-old Rachel Goodman, rummaging through a closet in her family's Manhattan apartment, came across a dusty tin box full of acetate (test) records. It took her father, Bandleader and Clarinetist Benny Goodman, a minute or two to recall what they were ("I put them away so carefully I couldn't find them...
...night came Earnest I. Sligh, his swarthy, leering face hidden by the velvet lapel of his midnight-blue cloak. He slithered into the CRIMSON and darted into the hall closet. "Shhh," he hissed to the managing editor...
...missing Capp sequence concerned one Happy Vermin, the self-described "world's smartest cartoonist," who had hired Li'l Abner to draw Vermin's comic strip in a dimly lighted closet. Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. Cried bighearted Vermin to his slaving assistant: "I'm proud of having created these [hillbilly] characters!! They'll make millions for me!! And if they do-I'll get you a new light bulb...